Feedback on the new category column appearance

[Skeptic]

@codinghorror

did not properly keep the focus on the word in the category rather than the accessory color

I scan colors quicker. Taking away the full color bar is much, much slower to parse for me.

[daneel]

Honestly, I don’t really give a rats ass about the categories. I’d happily dump the idea entirely. I read what sounds interesting, and what’s generating discussion.

[beschizza]

How about

[Skeptic]

@daneel

Honestly, I don’t really give a rats ass about the categories. I’d happily dump the idea entirely. I read what sounds interesting, and what’s generating discussion.

Categories work for me. I like being able to quickly visually sort the BB editorial content from user generated topics.

I prefer the solid full color bars for quick scanning. ,(I’m just not seeing the problem with them.) If those are not to be I prefer the bars that have the saturated color column and shade of the color over the one that have the white.

[the_borderer]

That works better for me.

[CaptainPedge]

100% the way to go.

[Skeptic]

I think the video thumbnails need to be circles too, otherwise why do circles for the stills?

[fiddlingfrog]

Much better. The current flag of color looks less like a conscious design choice and more like the page has failed to load an element properly, but the shadow of color behind the word solves that nicely.

[Raita]

That looks good to me,

[Nonhuman_Hominid]

I’m no designer, but could a potential solution be to do away with the box things and colour the text instead…? Or has that already been tried and binned…?

Text on a coloured background…?

And if any HAVE to be grey (I don’t like grey, but that’s just personal) they don’t stand out too well on a black background.

[anon68952647]

Looks a bit like a clone whig.

[beschizza]

this thread’s about the BBS category flag color thingies, not the circular thumbs on the homepage of BB today (just testin’)

[CaptainPedge]

Anything ever come of this?

[sam]

It’s configurable by site admins @beschizza can revert to old style or style it differently if he wished , I use squares in my design which is my personal fav

Sam's personal "minimal" topic list design

[codinghorror]

We can try squares here. Since we circled everyone’s avatars – let’s add some karmic justice and switch from category bar to category squares (technically square bullets).

let the complaints begin

[SmashMartian]

@codinghorror

let the complaints begin

None here. The Red Square for the “boing” category is entirely appropriate for all us Cultural Marxists.